26 July 2013

Was He Right?

This piece is mistakenly attributed to David Kaiser, Ph.D. According to snopes.com, it originated as a comment on patdollard.com in Nov. '08, attributed to an author identified only as "TPS".

The comments herein, however, remain.
It is an accurate assessment of the historical trends of the
Progressive Movement, as of 2010 when it was written. Now that we have the benefit of hindsight from which to judge, was he right?

h/t to the Bayou Renaissance Man for identifying this piece as incorrectly credited to a real person who didn't compose it. Read this and let me know what you think.

History Unfolding

I am a
student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books on
history that have been published in six languages, and I have
studied history all my life. I have come to think there is something
monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply a
banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these
exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone
that is only now coming into a sharper focus..

Something
of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know
how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to
it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something
happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten to
fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.

We
demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make
massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why?

We
learned just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or
no real oversight by anyone, has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that
is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell
us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours
and mine. And that is three times the $700 billion we all argued
about so strenuously just this past September. Who has this money?
Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked
for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of "we
the people," who loaned our powers to our elected leaders.
Apparently not.

We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy... Why?

We
have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and
no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and
why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write,
think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting,
teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back
mediocrity. Why?

We
have now established the precedent of protesting every close
election (violently in California over a proposition that is so
controversial that it simply wants marriage to remain defined as
between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing
possible just a decade ago?) We have corrupted our sacred political
process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change
our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and
others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what
purpose?

Now
our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free
fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the
verge of collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is
Medicare and our entire government. Our education system is worse
than a joke (I teach college and I know precisely what I am talking
about) - the list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth.. It
is potentially 1929 x ten...And we are at war with an enemy we
cannot even name for fear of offending people of the same religion,
who, in turn, cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if
they have the opportunity to do so.

And
finally, we have elected a man that no one really knows anything
about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town
as big as Wasilla, Alaska. All of his associations and alliances are
with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and
everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not
downright scary (surely you have heard him speak about his idea to
create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our
military for use inside our borders? No? Oh, of course. The media
would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer
it. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe are more
important.)

Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change. Why?

I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now.

This
man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never,
ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will
divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to
realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change
is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same
nation again.

And that is only the beginning..

As a
serious student of history, I thought I would never come to
experience what the ordinary, moral German must have felt in the
mid-1930s In those times, the "savior" was a former smooth-talking
rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew
next to nothing. What they should have known was that he was
associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around
people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political
stage through great oratory. Conservative "losers" read it right
now.

And
there were the promises. Economic times were tough, people were
losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and frowned
and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak
out for fear that his "brown shirts" would bully and beat them into
submission. Which they did - regularly. And then, he was duly
elected to office, while a full-throttled economic crisis bloomed at
hand - the Great Depression Slowly, but surely he seized the
controls of government power, person by person, department by
department, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The children of German citizens
were at first, encouraged to join a Youth Movement in his name where
they were taught exactly what to think. Later, they were required
to do so. No Jews of course,

How
did he get people on his side? He did it by promising jobs to the
jobless, money to the money-less, and rewards for the
military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the
children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages,
better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the
country, across Europe, and across the world. He did it with a
compliant media - did you know that? And he did this all in the name of
justice and ... change. And the people surely got what they voted
for.

If you think I am exaggerating, look it up. It's all there in the history books.

So
read your history books. Many people of conscience objected in 1933
and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and ridiculed. When
Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while
seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime
Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy
troublemaker. He was right, though. And the world came to regret that he
was not listened to.

Do not
forget that Germany was the most educated, the most cultured country
in Europe. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals,
laboratories, and universities. And yet, in less than six years (a
shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency) it
was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its
laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against
neighbors. All with the best of intentions, of course. The road to Hell
is paved with them.

As a
practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I
have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of
evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can
believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of
seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having
another latte, and ignoring what is transpiring around me..

I choose to believe the evidence. No doubt some people will scoff at me,
others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. To some
degree, perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in
the eye and tell them exactly what I believe-and why I believe it.

I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am. Perhaps the only hope is our vote in the next elections.

By passing this along, perhaps it will help to begin the awakening of America as to where we are headed.

6 comments:

My wife has seen the similarities between Obama and Hitler since his very first speech at the Democrat convention. Most dangerous president in our country's history IMHO, of course. Time will tell if our country will be willing to turn the ship or continue on towards the shoals. Either way, it isn't going to be pretty!

I don't think the man is a danger to himself or others. His ADVISORS OTOH...I think he is one of Lenin's 'useful idiots', being willing used by them to destabilize the Western World.Why?To make us all 'equal' - like with Albania or Mozambique.It's on FAIR...

Of course, like most other countries, there will be a need for a great leader...

Was recently reading a pdf of the following book (These excerpts from Wikipedia):

"Shafarevich's book The Socialist Phenomenon . . in 1980, analyzes numerous examples of socialism, from ancient times, through various medieval heresies, to a variety of modern thinkers and socialist States. From these examples he claims that all the basic principles of socialist ideology derive from the urge to suppress individuality."

And then this: "He claims that we become persons through our relationship with God, and argues that socialism is essentially nihilistic . . ."

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